Heritage Prints Auction Hits $2.07M with Hockney Record

Heritage Auctions' April 23 Prints & Multiples Signature sale totaled $2.07 million, setting five auction records. The top lot was David Hockney's 'Lithographic Water Made of Lines, Crayon and Two Blue Washes' (1978–80), which achieved $225,000, a new record for the edition. Another Hockney, 'Hotel Acatlan, Two Weeks Later, from Moving Focus' (1985), sold for $162,500. Consignment Director Desiree Pakravan noted that collectors responded to quality and significance in the tightly curated selection of postwar and contemporary works.